Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Advisor "Brown, Duncan John Bruce."
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The identity of difference : a critical study of representations of the Bushmen.
(1998)More than any other people, the Bushmen - like the Aborigines on the Australian continent - have epitomized the sub-human other in South African historiography. My primary concern in this study will be to interrogate the ... -
"Inside the cavity of shame" : a critical presentation of the New Prison Poetry Project (1998), and the spaces of expression and alterity constructed in the writing of the participants.
(2004)Chapter One will introduce the central area of exploration of this study and establish the main terms of reference and guidelines of the research. Chapter Two will deal with the background and history of the project, and ... -
Kof' abantu, kosal' izibongo?: contested histories of Shaka, Phungashe and Zwide in izibongo and izithakazelo.
(2004)In this dissertation, I argue that there is a pressing need in post-apartheid KwaZulu-Natal to re-assess the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century histories of the region from the perspectives of people whose ancestry was ... -
Mediating urban identity : orality, performance and poetry in the work of Koos du Plessis.
(2002)In this article I examine as mediations of urban experience poems written by Koos du Plessis. a contemporary Afrikaans poet. together with their musical rendition by Johannes Kerkorrel. a singer and musician from the ... -
Memory, monuments and the South African national imaginary : Constitution Hill and the fiction of Ivan Vladislavic.
(2010)This dissertation is an examination of public culture and memory sites in post-apartheid South Africa, in relation to their narrativisation in the fiction of the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić, who evinces a creolized, ... -
Orality, textuality and history : issues in South African oral poetry and performance.
(1995)A vigorous oral tradition has existed throughout South African history, and in many ways represents our truly original contribution to world literature. Despite this, oral literature is largely absent from accounts of ... -
Speaking to changing contexts : reading Izibongo at the urban-rural interface.
(2001)In this thesis I argue that recently recorded izibongo must be read as literary texts that articulate responses to the multiple forces of constraint and possibility at the urban-rural interface. I argue that when scholars ... -
Testimony, identity and power : oral narratives of near-death experiences in the Nazarite church.
(2005)In this study I investigate the narratives of near-death experiences in the Nazarite Church as one way in which this community grapples with the question of death and the after-life. However, I am particularly interested ...